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Conflict and Identity in Romans: The Social Setting of Paul’s Letter is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the purpose of Paul’s letter to the Romans? Esler provides an illuminating analysis of this epistle, employing social-scientific methods along with epigraphy and archaeology. His conclusion is that the Apostle Paul was attempting to facilitate the resolution of intergroup conflict among the Christ-followers of Rome, especially between Judeans and non-Judeans, and to establish a new...

enough, for it does not assert the presence of Christ in the experience of the ritual. This also brings us to the second objection to Moo’s position, that it overlooks what happens in baptism. Those who were baptized received the Spirit of God within and henceforth the Spirit lived there. For Paul this was virtually the equivalent of saying that they had the Spirit of Christ (Rom. 8:10). Thus baptism was an overwhelming encounter with God and Christ, an encounter charged with visionary experiences
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